Way ahead of you there. First part of the timeline is already up and running. The new forums don't have those collapsible spoiler tags, I've noticed. Pity, they really helped navigate some of the more convoluted posts. Well, with the wiki we may be able to make that data more accessible. That is pr...

no, guests should be able to download from wherever showcases are and that should be the area where all publicly available data is located as well. So public releases and showcases should be in the same forum section.

#pt is probably the best place for the discussion, I agree. Not to mention I wouldn't mind moving all discussion there anyway. I'm working on getting set up to have IRC working at my place of work, but I'm on pretty restricted internet there as it is a high school.

I agree we have a lot of redundant area in our forums right now that should be merged and cleaned up. I think it would be best overall to have each project run along similar forum structures so that people coming in and out of each or just visiting them know exactly where to go in each project forum...